John B. Ford

John B. Ford is a notable British horror writer and publisher, born in 1963. He was introverted in his youth and left school at the age of 16. He spent the next sixteen years performing a variety of jobs, including those of a car park attendant and a factory laborer.

He turned to writing on New Year’s Day 1995, after suffering from a massive panic attack. His birth name, used prior to the attack, has been a well-guarded secret.

His fiction focuses on the themes of death and madness, and is often written in the atmospheric styles of William Hope Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers and M.P. Shiel.

In 1996 he established BJM Press (Big Jolly Man Press), launching Terror Tales magazine, and publishing a series of chapbooks by such horror writers as Michael Pendragon (Nightscapes, 1999), Paul Bradshaw (Reservoir of Dreams, 2000), Steve Lines (Dreams of a Diseased Mind, 2000), Paul Kane (Alone in the Dark, 2000), Paul Finch (By the Gas Flame Flickering, 2001), David Price (The Evil Eye, 2001) and Quentin S. Crisp (The Nightmare Exhibition, 2001).

His magazine, Terror Tales, has a strong cult following.

He joined with Steve Lines of Rainfall Records in 2001 to create Rainfall Records and Books, which continues to publish horror books.

Short Stories and Poetry

The Cemetery Of The Ocean -- The Doppelganger Broadsheet -- Feb 96
The Midnight Caller -- Really Quite Cosmic -- Feb 96
The Rose Of Lamia -- Footsteps -- April 96
The Illusion Of Life -- Saccade --May 96
Tongue Tied -- Bats And Red Velvet -- May 96
The Sea Of Strangeness -- Really Quite Cosmic -- July 96
Long Black Hairy Legs -- The Doppelganger Broadsheet -- Nov 96
Destiny -- The Sky's Gone Out -- Nov 96
In The House Of Chained Souls -- Black Planet -- Nov 96
A Visit To The Gooja Bird -- Reader's Feast -- Dec 96
The Illusion Of Life -- Sink Full Of Dishes -- Dec 96
In The House Of Chained Souls -- The Doppelganger Broadsheet]] -- Dec 96
The Illusion Of Death -- Strix -- Dec 96
Grondak -- Writers' Express -- Feb 96
Love Hearts -- Unreal Dreams -- March 97
The Menace Of Manifold Valley -- The Doppelganger Broadsheet -- March 97
Life On Ice -- Odyssey -- April 97
The Illusion Of Life -- Peninsular -- April 97
Dead Man's Handle -- Nasty Piece Of Work -- June 97
The Darkest Of All Healings -- Strix -- July 97
The Illusion Of Life -- Penny Dreadful -- August 97
The Lucky Man From Atlantis -- Flickers `n' Frames -- August 97
The Man Who Drank Death -- Visions -- August 97
A Visit To The Gooja Bird -- Lateral Moves -- August 97
Strange One Off The Rails -- Unreal Dreams -- August 97
The Halloween House -- Oktobyr -- Oct 97
The Curse -- Nightchillers -- Oct 97
The Cemetery Of The Ocean -- Unreal Dreams Oct 97
The Song Of Weeping -- The Doppelganger Broadsheet -- Dec 97
Satanic Rose With Crimson Bud -- Tales Of The Arabesque And Grotesque -- Dec 97
The Keeper Of Souls -- Strix -- Dec 97
The Men Who Glowed -- Scared To Death -- Dec 97
The Rose Of Lamia -- Penny Dreadful -- Jan 98
Black Snakes And Rats -- Saccade -- Feb 98
The Superintendent Of Death -- Scared To Death -- March 98
Transfiguration -- Tales Of The Arabesque And Grotesque -- April 98
The Song Of Weeping -- Strix -- April 98
The Sea Of Strangeness -- Penny Dreadful -- May 98
The Things In The [...] -- Scared To Death -- June 98
The Song Of Weeping -- Scared To Death -- June 98
Satanic Rose With Crimson Bud -- Scared To Death -- June 98
To Dwell On Tainted Ground -- Enigmatic Tales -- June 98
In The House Of Chained Souls -- Sackcloth And Ashes -- Sept 98
A Visit To The Gooja Bird -- Strix -- Sept 98
The Curse -- Penny Dreadful -- Sept 98
My Lady Of Starlight -- Writers Express -- Sept 98
The Rose Of Lamia -- Unreal Dreams -- Sept 98
Destiny -- Sierra Heaven -- Oct 98
The Man With Electric Balls -- Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque -- Oct 98
The Church Of Unholiness -- Oktobyr -- Oct 98
My Lady Azia (Written With Richard Bennet) Terror Tales -- Dec 98
The Pools Of Sadness -- The Dream Zone -- Dec 98
The Illusion Of Life -- Roadworks -- Jan 99
Earth Spirit -- The Doppelganger Broadsheet -- Jan 99
The Island Of The Undead -- Strix -- Jan 99
The Darkest Of All Healings -- Penny Dreadful -- Feb 99
Sweet And Sour Dreams -- The Dream Zone -- March 99
The Midnight Caller -- Penny Dreadful -- June 99
Dead Things (with Paul Bradshaw) -- Dead Things Magazine -- July 99
[...] Dwarf And The Disco Dollies -- Charnel House -- July 99
The Cycle (with Joe Rattigan) -- Strix -- July 99
The Island of The Undead -- Monomyth -- July 99
A Visit To The Gooja Bird -- Songs of Innocence -- August 99
Strange One Off The Rails -- Penny Dreadful -- Oct 99
Croxton's Return (written with Derek M. Fox) Enigmatic Tales -- Dec 99
The Nightmare Plot (written with Gary Greenwood) The Dream Zone -- Feb 00
Soul Light -- Songs of Innocence -- Feb 00
The Song Of Weeping -- Penny Dreadful -- April 00
Giving You The Eye -- Penny Dreadful -- April 00
The Maze For Jaded Brains -- Redsine -- April 00
Doctor Calargi's Black Box -- Roadworks -- May 00
The Eternally Descending Blade -- Dream Zone -- June 00
Earth Spirit -- Songs Of Innocence -- August 00
Mrs Drasic's Farewell Party (Written with Eddie M. Angerhuber) -- Nocturnal Products -- 2002
Behind The Painted Face --Shadow Writers #1 -- October 2002
A Box Full Of Nightmares -- Penny Dreadful -- April 2005

Chapbooks

Within The Sea Of The Dead -- BJM Press -- 1996
The Derelict Of Death (Written With Simon Clark) -- BJM Press -- 1998
Macabre Delights And Twisted Tales -- BJM Press -- 1997
Ghouls And Gore And Twisted Terrors -- BJM Press -- 1998
Death Songs of Carcosa (with Steve Lines) -- Rainfall Books -- April 2006

Books

Dark Shadows On The Moon -- story collection -- Hive Press -- 2001
Tales Of Devilry And Doom -- story collection -- Rainfall Books -- 2001
The Evil Entwines -- collaborative stories -- Hardcastle Books -- 2002
The Haunted Ocean -- Novella -- Rainfall Books -- 2004